Das Schwarze Korps

Das
Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps),
first introduced in 1935, was the official weekly newspaper
and propaganda agency of the SS,
which every SS member was required to read and induce
others to read. The newspaper was published by the Reichsführung-SS,
(High Command of the SS), under direction of SS-Standartenführer
Günter d'Alquen. In late 1939, d'Alquen took over
command of the newly forming SS-Kriegsberichter Kompanie,
(War Correspondents Company) and direction of Das
Schwarze Korps was passed to Kurt Eggers until his death in August
1943. The paper was printed by the NSDAP's
own, Eher Verlag, publishing house in Munich
with the editorial office in Berlin
and continued in circulation until the end of the war
as the only uncensored newspaper in Germany.